riting Prompt: Position Paper

Rhetorical Situation: For this assignment, you must write a coherent, grammatically correct academic argumentative essay (500-750 words) in which you will take and defend a position on an issue.

Topic: Any applicable current event.

Submitting Your Work: Click the View/Complete link at the bottom of this assignment to upload your paper to Blackboard.

Assignment Overview: In this assignment, you will use your writing and research skills to create a scholarly, well-constructed argumentative paper. You will begin by using the material we cover in class to help you identify and narrow the topic you will write on to formulate an argumentative thesis that will serve as the basis of your paper. Also, you will be doing exercises in class that will help you learn to transform the general framework of your argument into paragraphs that support your claims with evidence and cogent analysis, and transfer paragraphs into a coherent extended argument.

Guidelines: Your paper should

Meet the length requirement.
Be submitted on time.
Reflect your critical thinking and careful analysis of the subject matter and appropriately fulfill the tasks described in the assignment prompt.
Include an argumentative thesis that is appropriate to the assignment and subject matter. It isn’t flimsy or too general.
Provide a context that helps the intended readers understand the issue or subject discussed in the article.
Appropriately handle the rhetorical situation indicated in the assignment prompt.
Be organized in a logical and effective manner.
Be cohesive, using logical transitions within and between paragraphs.
Have a tone that is respectful and appropriate for an academic audience.
Be written in academic voice. It is an authoritative voice that informs the reader. It is active, avoids the use of first and second person pronouns, avoids contractions, colloquialisms and abbreviations, and expresses ideas concisely.
Include quotations and examples that support the claims you make in your analysis. It should not rely too heavily on summary or extensive use of quotations.
Include all internal and bibliographic citations in correct MLA format.
Be grammatically correct. Your writing should follow the structure of Standard American Edited English (the parts of speech and their functions, their relationship to each other, word order in sentences, the parts of a sentence and how they are put together, e.g., subject, predicate, objects, etc.).
Be mechanically correct. Your writing should follow the conventions of Standard American Edited English with regard to punctuation, capitalization, spelling, etc.

Follow MLA formatting standards for the heading, pagination, internal documentation, and works cited. Consult your writing handbook and class handouts for details.
Stay in third person (Avoid first person: me, I, our, we. Do not use second person: you, your)
Refer to an author by his or her whole name when you first introduce and then only by last name. For example, don’t write, According to Willie unless Willie is the author’s last name.
Your paper should avoid
using fluff—superfluous or irrelevant comments written only to reach the word limit
relying on extensive summary (you may assume that your readers are familiar with the text)
relying on extensive quotation (Only 30% or less of your paper should be quoted from other sources.)
presenting the ideas and words of others without crediting those sources

The additional material I uploaded doesn’t have to be completed, it is just a tool for help to show what my proffessor wants.
I also uploaded the same instruction on a document

you can look up articles on this libaray database
http://library.cqpress.com.uiwtx.idm.oclc.org/cqresearcher/index.php?action=setview&mode=original